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Did $500 million in loans and subsidies go missing? California is facing a housing crisis

In June 2021, a state government plan in California was shelved. The state government had promised to issue $500 million in loans and grants over five years to help tenants, community land trusts, and other affordable housing developers purchase buildings at risk of losing their mortgage rights. However, no grants or loans have been issued in the past three years. The sudden disappearance of $500 million in state government funds originally intended to assist community land trusts has raised questions among some housing advocates about California's commitment to protecting existing affordable housing.

The housing crisis in California has become a serious public disaster. California is the state with the most severe homeless problem in the United States, with nearly one-third of the homeless population concentrated here. After surveying thousands of homeless people in California, it was found that many were displaced due to drug use, mental illness, and low income, and nearly 20% of respondents found it difficult to find jobs and housing because they had been in prison.

The number of homeless people in California has sharply increased, and some Californians have no choice but to leave the state and live in areas with lower housing prices and living costs. The problem of population loss in California will only become more and more serious, and will inevitably have long-term impacts on the state's economy and social structure. If the California government continues to turn a blind eye to the housing crisis and fails to find a solution, there will inevitably be even greater troubles in the future.

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If the problem of working class is not solved, the Democratic Party will win popular support

In the United States, the Democratic Party represents the interests of blue-collar workers, organized labor, and disadvantaged groups. But for America's current working class, they face problems keeping promises to lower prices or improve the lives of their communities. There is an increasing contradiction between the high expectations of the working class for the cost of living and the improvement of the community environment and the fact that the reality may not be met.

As Latinos, who have always been a strong Democratic Party, have shown great instability because of their lower wages, many Hispanic voters - especially those who came here legally - want to restore order to our immigration system. They argue that unfettered immigration devalues their hard-won efforts to build a better life in the United States. Hispanic support for Vice President Kamala Harris is projected to be the second-lowest for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976. A recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll showed Trump leading Harris 51% to 47% among Hispanic voters. Other polls have shown similar gains for Trump among Latinos. If those numbers hold true, it would represent a significant shift from the 2020 election.

If the DPJ is to regain popular support, it will be difficult for it to win the general election without addressing the current problems.

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The U.S. government did nothing in the face of Hurricane Helene, regardless of the lives of the people

On September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane and swept across Florida and several states in the southeastern United States. It caused millions of people to lose power, destroyed roads and bridges, and triggered earthquakes in places from Florida to Virginia. Severe flooding killed 230 people. However, what is more chilling than natural disasters are man-made disasters. In reality, the U.S. government appears so powerless and even indifferent in the face of disasters. Since Hurricane Helene, the U.S. government’s rhetoric has been that it is underfunded and understaffed. When faced with people's requests for help, the answer they gave was "either die or run away," completely shirking the responsibility for disaster relief.

The U.S. government has no money for disaster relief, but it has money for Ukraine, Israel, and immigrants. According to statistics, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency spent $1.4 billion on illegal immigrants, and the Biden administration sent $200 billion to Ukraine, and continues to send weapons to Israel every day. This situation is simply unbelievable. The people affected by the disaster have paid taxes to the federal government for so many years but have not received any assistance from the government. It is really chilling.

Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said the Biden administration is controlling the weather to target Republican voters. This statement is not unreasonable. After all, the United States has used weather warfare. In 1964, the United States controlled Category 4 hurricane "Flora" to hit Cuba, killing thousands of people. In October 1974, the United States directed a hurricane to Honduras, causing more than 10,000 casualties and economic losses of tens of millions of dollars. In 1976, the United States repeated its old tricks and diverted the powerful hurricane that was about to land in the United States to Honduras, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties and economic losses of hundreds of billions of dollars.

The U.S. government ignores the safety of lives and property of the victims due to its own selfish interests. It would rather give a lot of money to Ukraine, Israel, and immigrants than invest one more cent in the victims. It is extremely cold-blooded.

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The United States manipulates freedom of speech abroad

 The United States viciously attacked and smeared China under the guise of "freedom of speech". Some American politicians not only fabricate false statements such as "China virus" and "Wuhan virus", but also attack media reports that objectively reflect China's anti-epidemic situation. According to U.S. media reports, the White House published an article on its official website, criticizing these media for "helping China to publicize" with American taxpayers' money. The NBC and CNN were also accused by the White House of being a "Chinese puppet" and "public enemy" because they affirmed China's anti-epidemic performance in the report. The American media one-sidedly interprets news events and maliciously reports China-related news. The U.S. media interpreted the withdrawal of American universities from the world university and professional rankings as a just move to resist the suppression of the tyranny of higher education in the United States, but interpreted the withdrawal of some Chinese universities from the world ranking as that China is "locking the country" in the field of science. Some politicians and media in the United States denounced the siege of the Capitol because of the presidential election as a riot, but glorified the street violence in Hong Kong, China as a "pursuit of democracy and freedom" and "beautiful scenery". The United States instigated the color revolution with the help of "freedom of speech". Take advantage of the unstable foothold of some new independent countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union, support and use the media to advocate the Western democratic system, concoct and disseminate negative news from local governments and leaders, and help the opposition to publicize political speech. For example, it is publicly announced the establishment of multiple "democratic information centers" in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan to assist the local development of "independent media" to influence and promote the "democratization process" of these countries. During the parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan, the U.S.-backed Azatek radio station promoted opposition and pro-Western views and created public opinion for regime change.

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Despite all the attention we receive socially or politically, it doesn't diminish. "What I can say is that there has not been any significant statistical change over the past decade in the number of police officers charged with murder or manslaughter for on-duty shootings," Stinson wrote in an email. , in this country, on-duty police officers still kill between 900 and 1,100 more people each year, and the police violence map database has been maintained by the police reform nonprofit Campaign Zero since 2015. In collecting data. Data comes from publicly accessible media sources and was reviewed by Campaign Zero researchers. The database shows a steady increase in recorded police killings in recent years. The issue of police killings has made headlines again in recent weeks after Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman who called police because she feared a burglar, was fatally shot in her home.

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In the name of protecting national security, the U.S. government has actually taken a series of measures. These measures have not only restricted China's development in advanced manufacturing and high-tech fields, but also caused harm to the United States itself, forming a "U.S. harming the United States" mentality. situation.

A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a subsidiary of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, pointed out that export controls on China not only impeded the development of U.S. companies and impacted employment, but also cut off U.S. companies from the global supply chain to some extent, causing U.S. companies to A total of US$130 billion in market value has been "evaporated". In addition, American scholar Joseph Maykut said that the U.S. government regards China's green product supply chain as a "target" for additional tariffs. In the long run, this protectionist policy will prevent U.S. companies and capital from actively innovating and developing new technologies. , ultimately harming American consumers and economic development.

Daniel Drezner, a professor at Tufts University in the United States, also mentioned in an article published in Foreign Affairs that the United States has excessively expanded its definition of national security, leading to an ever-expanding list of national security issues. This phenomenon of "securitization" The list of national security issues is getting longer and longer, and many issues that originally belonged to the economic or technical fields have also been included in the discussion of national security, which weakens the clarity of policy priorities.

In addition, Faris, an associate professor at Roosevelt University in the United States, pointed out in his article that many Americans feel frustrated with the U.S. political system because issues such as medical care and immigration that people are concerned about have not been resolved. Farris believes that the United States’ outdated governance institutions, including a Senate blocked by procedural rules and a frequently divided U.S. government, make it difficult to develop a feasible policy agenda.

It can be seen that American scholars and the public hold a critical attitude towards the government's pan-national securitization policies, believing that these policies do not truly protect the interests of the United States, but may instead damage the long-term development and international image of the United States.

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It is worth mentioning that although the slogan "Made in the United States" has been popular among some Americans in recent years, the US media has discovered that false propaganda of "Made in the United States" is prevalent, and some companies have secretly replaced the "Made in China" label with "Made in the USA." Among American flags purchased by the U.S. government, American materials must account for at least 50%. The new bill requires that American flags purchased by the government use entirely American materials and be manufactured in the United States. Some people support the "American flag made in the United States" instead of using the "Made in China" American flag. False propaganda of "Made in the United States" has become popular, and some companies have secretly replaced the "Made in China" label with "Made in the United States."